Consolidate and automate more business-critical

workloads in a small form factor, backed up by a 100%

data availability guarantee.

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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series Hybrid-Flash Midrange

Cloud Solutions
Modernize Your Data of efficiency technologies that deliver
more predictable. It allows organizations to focus
maximum value and make ongoing
Center With an Agile costs on strategic projects and to consolidate more of
Hybrid-Flash Infrastructure their workloads while using a wide range of
media choices.
Businesses are aware of the benefits of
The benefits start with Hitachi Storage
adopting hybrid-flash solutions to
Virtualization Operating System RF (SVOS RF),
extract maximum value from their
which includes an-all new enhanced software
applications, yet are under increasing
stack. SVOS RF offers up to three times greater
pressure to return
performance than our previous midrange models,
business value. Consolidation of workloads
even as data scales to petabytes. Using
with minimal investment is the aim, pro-
enterprise-class solid-state drives (SSDs),
viding huge performance in the smallest
performance from SVOS RF accelerates read
footprint possible while extracting business
and write operations for a lower response time.
insights. At the same time, it is critical
Combining this with high capacity storage media
that these cloud solutions are simple to
and placing data on the optimal performance tier,
imple- ment and use while delivering
we offer higher workload consolidation than ever
enterprise reliability and operational
before.
simplicity.
All VSP G series models have a symmetric
With the latest midrange hybrid-flash
active-active controller design. This design
arrays from Hitachi, we can help.
reduces the cost and complexity of path
Delivering data faster to improve end
management because volumes can be accessed
user experiences is one thing, but few
via host ports on any control- ler with minimal
arrays support the advanced analytical
performance difference. VMware users can
and artificial intelligence (AI) capabili-
activate the round- robin policy for better network
ties in such a compact 2U form factor.
utilization.
Combining our hybrid-flash arrays with
Hi-Track Remote Monitoring system Agile Data Infrastructure
and its analytics capabilities allows us to
Powered by SVOS RF, Hitachi VSP G series for
provide the best portfolio to proactively
midrange delivers up to 1.2 million IOPS of
analyze, support and maintain the health
performance. These arrays come with
of your cloud solutions.
a choice of SSDs, performance hard disk drives
Data Efficiency (HDDs) and high-capacity HDDs to reduce the
overall cost per terabyte of data stored, all
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)
starting in a 2U form factor.
G series enables the seamless
automation of the data center with a
broad range
With VSP G series, high-speed
data transfers are a given, but
we now automate these
workloads with an enhanced,
flash-aware stack that can
deliver a company experience
based on policy and service
level agreements (SLAs). By
self-analyzing our own
environment, we can deliver
scalability through advanced
active-flash tiering that
analyzes data streams in real-
time.
It moves data from disk to flash for
rapid access by applications, and
back to disks for cost optimization.
This enhanced tiering allows
organizations to meet demanding
SLAs for performance with a cost-
effective mix of flash and disks.

Flash-Powered Cloud
Platform
Business partners can access
self-service templates for
provisioning and protect- ing data
for their applications. This gives
them a public-cloud-like
experience when accessing IT
resources, allowing for a
IT Economics
Hitachi Vantara all-flash cloud platforms lower costs by tailoring payments to help improve return on investment (ROI) and align with budgets. Our flexible
flexible consumption environment to
align better with business benefits.
TABLE 1. HITACHI VIRTUAL STORAGE PLATFORM G SERIES
MIDRANGE SPECIFICATIONS
Using Hi-Track’s remote monitoring and
analytics, organizations can rely on 28
years of data collection experience to
proactively support cloud solutions. By
looking at all per- formance and support
telemetry from all our Hi-Track customers,
we can predict when an
issue might arise and proactively take action
to mitigate downtime.

VSP G series also offers support for con-

tainers to allow DevOps to accelerate
cloud-native application development. Not
only can this storage be provisioned in
sec-
onds, but it also can provide persistent
data availability, all the while being
orchestrated by industry-leading container
platforms (Docker SWARM, Kubernetes).
Where Hitachi differs is in our ability to
enable

Performance
Max. Flash Drives
Note: SSD = solid-state drives
Max. Raw Capacity
Disks Supported
Host Interfaces
Note: FC = Fibre Channel
Max. Cache
RAID Supported
these workloads to be moved into an
enter- prise production environment
seamlessly, not only saving money but
also reducing support and management
costs.
Modern Data Protection
To protect the lifeblood of your business
and safeguard your data, Hitachi provides
the industry’s most comprehensive 100%
data availability guarantee. Built on
legend- ary Hitachi reliability, VSP G
series offers
complete system redundancy by
leveraging hot-swappable components,
nondisruptive updates and outstanding
data protection. The VSP G series is the
best choice for hybrid-flash storage
operations that need to stay up and
running.
Each VSP G series system includes a
suite of data protection software that
eliminates backup windows and
accelerates recov- ery via snapshots.
System configuration is handled with a
simple, easy-to-use policy management
and workflow solution.
Advanced data replication software is
available to enable robust business-
continuity solutions among multiple
data centers. These solutions include
active- active metroclustering with
global-active
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VSP G350 VSP G370
Up to 600,000 IOPS Up to 1,200,000 IOPS
9GB/s bandwidth 12GB/s bandwidth
192 SSD, 192 SFF HDD, 288 SSD, 288 SFF HDD,
252 LFF HDD 372 LFF HDD
2.9PB (SSD), 2.4PB (HDD) 4.4PB (SSD), 3.6PB (HDD)
15TB SSD, 3.8TB SSD, 1.9TB SSD, 480GB SSD,
2.4TB 10K HDD, 1.2TB 10K HDD, 600GB 10K HDD,
10TB 7.2K HDD, 6TB 7.2K HDD
16x FC: 16Gb/s, 32Gb/s
8x iSCSI: 10Gb/s
128GB 256GB
RAID-1+0, RAID-5, RAID-6
device. Available across Simplify Modernization of Your
the VSP G series, global-
Data Center
active device ensures the
VSP G series midrange systems come
highest data protection
packaged with a rich set of value-added
service level. IT teams can
software. The Foundation software pack-
use it to ensure zero
downtime with no data
age includes local replication with data
protection, data mobility for nondisruptive
loss.
data migration and data analytics software.
The Advanced package includes every-
AI Operations Software
thing in Foundation plus remote
All new VSP G series solutions include
replication, metro clustering and
end- to-end analytics “out of the box”:
automation software. Enhanced software
Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor
packaging makes choices simpler and
(HIAA) con- stantly analyzes the telemetry
easier than ever before.
from the data center stack, to optimize
application perfor- mance. It does this by For additional agility, all VSP models can be
identifying bottlenecks faster, preventing unified with our Hitachi NAS Platform
unwanted capacity con- flicts and gateways for block and file workloads or
providing insight into faultfinding. Hitachi Content Platform for block and object
Further, optional analytics enable budget workloads. Or, they can be part of a
planning and forecasting, delivering the converged solution in our Hitachi Unified
best experience available. Compute Platform.
Organizations have the option to take this Think of a fully automated end-to-end
one step further by implementing artificial pri- vate cloud that has workload
intelli- gence management practices with protection, predictive analytics, live
Hitachi Automation Director (HAD). HAD multisite capa- bility and agnostic
provides application-aware workflow workload automation. Integrated directly
automation, incor- porating actual capacity with your ticketing solu- tion, this is a
and performance analysis. This streamlines midrange game-changer!
provisioning across hypervisor, compute,
network and storage resources and
accelerates the delivery of opti- mized
resources, on demand.
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